Perth Glory will have a new home base in 2025, after the club signed a five-year lease with the City of Stirling to relocate to the suburb of Mirrabooka.
Glory will use part of Stirling Leisure as their administrative headquarters while the adjacent Mirrabooka Regional Open Space will be developed into a training facility for the club, with two of the football pitches at the venue set to be upgraded to A-Leagues standard.
Council allocated $700,00 to the project in its 2024/25 budget for the upgrades, in addition to $1.2 million committed by the Western Australian State Government towards facility upgrades to establish Perth Glory’s new home.
The move ends Glory’s three-year stint based at Fremantle Oval, a facility at which neither of the club’s A-Leagues outfits have been able to train.
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The five-year lease, once finalised, will include an option to extend for a further five years and will be funded through a sponsorship agreement negotiated by the City and the club.
Perth Glory CEO Anthony Radich says consolidating the club’s operations into a single base in Mirrabooka is “a major step forward for the club.”
“This move brings much greater synergies and efficiencies to how we function in terms of our administration,” Radich said. “While having A-League-standard training pitches located on our doorstep will be hugely beneficial performance-wise for our A-League Men’s and Women’s teams.
“We are looking forward to engaging with what is a richly diverse local community, which has football at its heart, and adding value to the exciting plans that the City of Stirling has for the Mirrabooka Town Centre and the local area.
“I would like to acknowledge the foresight and vision of the City of Stirling, Mayor Mark Irwin and all the Councillors and executive for their support and willingness to make this happen.
“The WA State Government have also been a vitally important catalyst and we’re very grateful for their significant contribution and for their ongoing support of our sport and the club.”
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